“And the People Were as Numerous Almost as It Were the Sand of the Sea”

Brant Gardner

Historical: The archaeological record for Mesoamerica agrees that there were increasing numbers of people and an increasing number of cities that were being built at this time. This is a time of population growth that is accompanied by building the cities to accommodate the larger populations. There will still be larger populations in the future, but for Mormon this time period would represent the heaviest concentration of people that had been known in any record available to him.

Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

References